Maranacook Lake fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Brown Trout, Largemouth Bass

Target species: Atlantic Salmon, Brown Trout, Largemouth Bass
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Maranacook Lake — Readfield.

The lake

Maranacook Lake covers 1,749 acres in Maine, across Kennebec County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 127 feet (38.8 m). Our records hold 6 species for this water.

Depth: down to 127 ft at the deepest measured point

Deepest measured point: 127 ft (38.8 m). We hold 139 depth contours for this water, drawn from 236 soundings.

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  • 0–10 ft: 31.6% of the surveyed bottom
  • 10–20 ft: 28.6% of the surveyed bottom
  • 20–30 ft: 15.1% of the surveyed bottom
  • 30–40 ft: 8.2% of the surveyed bottom
  • 40–50 ft: 4.7% of the surveyed bottom
  • 50–60 ft: 3% of the surveyed bottom
  • 60–70 ft: 3% of the surveyed bottom
  • 70–80 ft: 1.8% of the surveyed bottom
  • 80–90 ft: 1.6% of the surveyed bottom
  • 90–100 ft: 1.4% of the surveyed bottom
  • 100–110 ft: 1% of the surveyed bottom
  • 110–120 ft: 0.1% of the surveyed bottom

Stocking: 31,280 fish, 2010–2026

Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife records list 31,280 fish released into this water from 2010 to 2026.

  • Brown Trout: 4,520 in 2010–2025

3 more species on the stocking list.

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3 target fish, led by Atlantic Salmon

  • Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
  • Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.

Also recorded here: Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Black Crappie.

2 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 2 boat ramps.

  • Maranacook Lake — Readfield — Readfield, State.
  • Maranacook Lake — Winthrop — restrooms. Winthrop, Local.

Fee and opening hours are blank for all 2 places in this list: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.

What is hard here

Only 2 public ramps are on file, so the launch decides where you fish.

Where this data comes from

  • Maine DEP — Maine DEP: depth soundings: class A, a survey of the bottom.
  • Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.